It can be intrepreted to imply she was happy to stay in the violent relationship for the sex.

And Ronald says: “I like her stories but this song was tough to listen to.”

Brown punched and bit the singer in an attack in 2009, but the couple rekindled their relationship while he was completing five years probation. They split again in 2013.

Fenty even claimed a biker gang offered to extract revenge on Chris - but he declined, because he wanted to do it himself.

He added: “It was a very difficult time for the whole family. Nobody wants to see their daughter hurt.

Rihanna is shown shortly after her alleged assault (Photo: Reuters/TMZ.com)

“I remember I had a phone call from one of her old security guards, he told me he and a biker gang were going to ride to Chris for revenge.”

Speaking from his home in Barbados, a 10-hour flight from Los Angeles where the domestic violence incident happened, Ronald admits: “I was angry but it’s a long way to go, I wanted to go.

“I told them to give me a few days because I felt like doing it myself, you know? I was going to fly in, get picked up from LAX and ride to Chris’ place so I could do it myself.

“When I called him the next day to arrange everything I cooled down and put a stop to it. She doesn’t know about this, she was going through enough.”

Brown pled guilty to felony assault and was slapped with a restraining order which Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, voluntarily removed as the pair later rekindled their relationship.

This week, the singer said she is single, adding: “I can’t even find the time to entertain a steady relationship or anything serious.”

Rihanna's dad Ronald Fenty (Photo: John Alevroyiannis/Daily Mirror)

Rihanna has previously opened up about the repercussions of the 2009 incident in an interview with Vanity Fair.

Pictures of her bruised face surfaced after the assault in Brown’s car.

Asked about becoming “a poster child for victims of domestic abuse”, she said she felt forced to relive the “very serious” incident

She told the magazine: “Well, I just never understood that, like how the victim gets punished over and over. It’s in the past, and I don’t want to say, ‘Get over it,’ because it’s a very serious thing that is still relevant; it’s still real.

“A lot of women, a lot of young girls, are still going through it. A lot of young boys too. It’s not a subject to sweep under the rug, so I can’t just dismiss it like it wasn’t anything, or I don’t take it seriously.

“But, for me, and anyone who’s been a victim of domestic abuse, nobody wants to even remember it. Nobody even wants to admit it.

“So to talk about it and say it once, much less 200 times, is like… I have to be punished for it? It didn’t sit well with me.”

She told the magazine she does not hate Brown and would “care about him until the day I die”. But she added: “We’re not friends, but it’s not like we’re enemies. We don’t have much of a relationship now.”

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Vivienne Hayes CEO of the women’s resource centre said: “the song signifies how complex domestic violence is as it happens in what is supposed to be a relationship of love and we know it often takes a long time for women to escape violent men”

“We are unsurprised that Rhianna is again scrutinised regarding the violence she experienced in a so called relationship of love.

“Until clear messages are given to men and boys that violence is unacceptable we will sadly continue to see this epidemic of violence towards women. Shouldn’t it be the perpetrators actions under the microscope?”